The Illinois and Iowa commercial health insurance markets took hits through much of 2009 as rising unemployment resulted in fewer insured residents. The issue was more severe in Illinois where the man…
The HealthLeaders-InterStudy Market Analyst team analyzes major developments at the nation’s publicly held health plans each quarter through their financial releases and conference call transcripts. T…
The Integrated Payer Platform combines data about health plans, PBMs and employer health benefits into one streamlined view, enabling users to fully assess market opportunities and obstacles and minim…
The HealthLeaders-InterStudy Market Analyst team analyzes major developments at the nation’s publicly held health plans each quarter through their financial releases and conference call transcripts. T…
In Georgia and Louisiana, state government is the largest employer and insures the largest group of people. In both states, cost saving changes are under way. Louisiana is looking at privatizing its s…
Arizona has one of the hardest hit economies in the nation, according to various indicators. As a result, commercial healthcare enrollment is down and enrollment in the state’s CHIP program has been c…
The HealthLeaders-InterStudy Market Analyst team analyzes major developments at the nation’s publicly held health plans each quarter through their financial releases and conference call transcripts. T…
Ohio has decided to carve out Medicaid pharmacy in anticipation of the passage of a new federal law, the Drug Rebate Equalization Act. The Act will give managed care companies the same rebates – aroun…
A change in pharmacy benefit management at California's largest health insurer paves the way for a gradual shift in focus to home delivery of medications, particularly generics. Analysts say the p…
UnitedHealthcare's Connected Care program, an effort to create a national telehealth network, has taken root in a partnership with Centura Health and rural health facilities. Diabetes management h…
Chronic pain is a multi-billion dollar market saturated with well-established branded and generic analgesics that are only partially effective. While drugs with novel mechanisms of action that offer g…
Independence Blue Cross is one of the state’s largest health insurers, but is one of the last to cover its members’ self-injected specialty drugs under the medical benefit. But that’s changing in 2010…
Employers in North Carolina and South Carolina are turning to so-called hybrid plans to help them continue to offer coverage in one of the regions worst hit by job losses. The hybrid plans combine fea…